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Philip, Count of Nassau-Idstein. Count Philip of Nassau-Idstein (1450 – 16 June 1509) was the youngest son of Count John II of Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein and his wife, Mary of Nassau-Siegen. In 1470, he married Margaret (1456–1527), the daughter of Count Palatine Louis I "the Black" of Zweibrücken-Veldenz. After John II died in 1480, Philip ...
Philip of Nassau-Idstein Count Philip of Nassau-Idstein (1450 – 16 June 1509) was the youngest son of Count John II of Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein and his wife, Mary of Nassau-Siegen. In 1470, he married Margaret (1456–1527), the daughter of Count Palatine Louis I "the Black" of Zweibrücken-Veldenz.
Walramian Nassau. Walram II’s son, Adolf of Nassau, was the German king from 1292 to 1298. Adolf’s descendants, however, partitioned their lands, and by the late 18th century the Walramian inheritance was divided between the Nassau-Weilburg and Nassau-Usingen branches. In 1801 Napoleonic France acquired the Walramians’ lands west of the ...
John II of Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein (born: 1419; died: 9 May 1480) was a son of Adolph II, Count of Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein and his wife Margarete of Baden, a daughter of Margrave Bernard I, Margrave of Baden-Baden en Anna of Oettingen. After his father's death in 1426, he ruled Nassau-Wiesbaden and Nassau-Idstein. Marriage and issue
Nassau-Idstein, teilweise und zeitweise auch als Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein bezeichnet, war ein Territorium im Heiligen Römischen Kaiserreich und eine Linie des Hauses Nassau. Es gehörte dem Oberrheinischen Reichskreis an. Das Gebiet bestand während eines Großteils seiner Geschichte im Wesentlichen aus der Herrschaft Idstein und der ...
Margarethe was the daughter of Philipp I, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg and Anna von Lichtenberg. [1] Her father ruled over the county of Hanau-Lichtenberg and, after the death of her maternal grandfather, the Lordship of Lichtenberg. She was a younger sister of Philipp II, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg . On 20 June 1484 she married Adolf III, Count ...
Idstein lies in the Taunus mountain range, about 16 kilometres (10 miles) north of Wiesbaden. The town's landmark is the Hexenturm ( Witches' Tower ), a 12th-century bergfried and part of Idstein Castle . The Old Town is found between the two brooks running through town, the Wolfsbach in the east and the Wörsbach in the west, on a high ridge ...
